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New Hampshire. It was observed that corn was very small at that time, and because 
of the backward season but little evidence of infestation was found. On July 19, 
Prof. Dean left Washington for a visit to Manhattan, Kan. On his return trip he 
visited several field laboratories in the Middle West and the corn borer scouting and 
quarantine work in the Great Lakes region. 
Mr. A. F. Satterthwait of the Webster Groves, Mo., laboratory of the Bureau of 
Entomology made an extended trip by auto during May in Missouri, Kansas and 
Nebraska. He not only had an opportunity to study the insect collections at the 
Universities of Missouri and Kansas, the Kansas State Agricultural College, and the 
Warren Knaus collection of Coleoptera at McPherson, but he also had an opportunity 
to do considerable collecting in the field. He was accompanied on some of the collect¬ 
ing trips by Dr. William Hayes, of the Kansas State Agricultural College, and Warren 
Knaus, of McPherson, Kansas. 
A shade tree conference to consider some of the problems connected with the care 
and protection of shade trees was held at Stamford, Conn., August 25 and 26. The 
invitations to attend this conference emanated from the Tree Protection Examining 
Board of Connecticut, and included a small number of scientific men and a few prac¬ 
tical tree surgeons known to be interested in the objects of the conference. Ento¬ 
mologists present were Dr. E. P. Felt, Albany, N. Y.; Mr. A. F. Burgess, Melrose High- 
lands, Mass.; W. O. Hollister, Kent, Ohio; W. O. Ellis, Boston, Mass.; Dr. Philip 
Garman and Dr. W. E. Britton, New Haven, Conn. 
Motion pictures were taken by the U. S. Department of Agriculture under Mr. 
St. George’s supervision, of logging operations in the woods and mill at Charleston, 
S. C., showing the approved methods of handling pine to prevent worm-hole injury. 
At Savannah and Clyo, Ga., and Vicksburg, Miss., additional motion pictures were 
taken illustrating methods of handling gum to prevent pinhole and wormhole injury. 
Several pictures were made at Vicksburg, showing methods of racking and piling 
lumber to prevent this character of injury. At Vicksburg extensive co-operative 
studies are being conducted to determine the best methods of cutting cypress to 
prevent borer attack. 
Dr. B. A. Porter of the Vincennes, Ind., Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, 
attended a blueberry maggot conference at Bangor, Maine, on July 18. The confer¬ 
ence was called by the National Canneis Association for the benefit of the blueberry 
canners of Maine, to consider possible methods of preventing the presence of maggots 
in canned blueberries. The matter was very thoroughly discussed, but the present 
knowledge of the problem was not sufficient to warrant final conclusions or reco i men- 
dations. The insect involved has been considered to be Rhagoletis pomonella'Walsh., 
the well-known apple maggot, although the form attacking the blueberry is probably 
a distinct biological strain. 
The Sugar Cane Insect Laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology will move on 
October 1st from Audubon Park, New Orleans, to Rooms 6 and 7, Wilson Building, 
8200 Oak Street, New Orleans, La. T. E. Holloway and W. E. Haley are permanent 
employees assigned to this Laboratory, and during the fall months, L. P. O’Dowd 
and D. D. Ewing, Jr., will be employed as temporary assistants. 
Mr. R. A. St. George of the Bureau of Entomology left Washington May 28 to 
conduct co-operative studies relating to the prevention and control of insects affect¬ 
ing crude forest products. At Portsmouth, Va., extensive studies are being conducted 
